{"id":1665,"date":"2016-01-25T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:29:03","slug":"to-alaska-its-about-the-journey-not-the-destination-part-ii-more-prep-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/to-alaska-its-about-the-journey-not-the-destination-part-ii-more-prep-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"To Alaska\u2026 it\u2019s about the journey not the destination Part II \u2013 More Prep &#038; Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/packing-list-for-AK-1.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Packing list for AK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve modified the list and pared it down some. \u00a0The goal is still to be under 50 lbs of gear and to make it all fit in the Panniers and one lg dry sack (for the tent\/sleeping bag) across the passenger\u2019s seat. \u00a0I\u2019m taking my work laptop with me which is how I\u2019m going to be able to add some extra days on to the trip. \u00a0I\u2019ve got a friend staying at the house with the cat. \u00a0As she really can\u2019t stay that long on her own, even with someone dropping by every few days.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are toiletries and clothes to consider like: pants, shorts, shirts, socks and such, but only 2 changes of clothes, I\u2019ll have under armor on under the riding gear, it washes and drys easily. \u00a0Since I\u2019m going to be on the bike almost every day and riding about 300-400 miles a day, not many changes of clothes are going to be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Major changes to what I had been planning: \u00a0I bought a Delorme InReach Explorer so I could send and receive text msgs on the road. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also picked up a TomTom rider for GPS navigation instead of using my phone. \u00a0I&#8217;m also going to get a Sena BT comm system so I can yell at Jaime along the way. \u00a0\ud83d\ude00 \u00a0But mostly so I can listen to the nav system.<\/p>\n<p>The thing I still need to work out is are the tires, like what to put on the bike and where I&#8217;ll want to change tires along the way. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking at TKC80 for the front and thinking of a longer wearing tire for the rear. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to change it in either Anchorage or Fairbanks I&#8217;m still working that part out too.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I&#8217;m working on right now is how to pack everything. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been picking up parts of this as I go, this weekend I&#8217;m going to start packing the panniers and seeing how it all fits. \u00a0Once I&#8217;ve packed in the boxes a few times, I&#8217;ll start to take pictures of how it&#8217;s packed, and weigh everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packing list for AK I&#8217;ve modified the list and pared it down some. \u00a0The goal is still to be under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-adventures","category-not-racing","category-two-wheels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}